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Thinking Sound Music : The Life and Works of Robert Erickson

Part of the Fallen Leaf Monographs on Contemporary Composers series
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Robert Erickson's music bristles with the quintessential virtues of modernist American composers: intelligence, good humor, lyricism, rich sonorities, inventive sound-colors.

It is firmly rooted in a thorough understanding of all musics now available, from ancient Greece to John Cage, yet it speaks with a characteristically American voice, direct and good-natured, attuned to the vernacular, never condescending to its audiences.

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Scarecrow Press
0914913425 / 9780914913429
Paperback / softback
01/01/1995
United States
278 pages
152 x 229 mm, 454 grams